1893 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
579 
WHAT OPEN EYES SEE. 
Ants and other crawling insects may, 
mostly, be fenced away from plant, 
shrub or tree by a circle of dry ashes 
kept thereabout. J. n. 
Baking Fruit Cake. —A small, wooden 
salt box is excellent to use in baking 
fruit cake, as the contents will not burn 
so readily as in tin. Sides and bottom 
must first be lined with oiled paper, g. h. 
Remedy for Snake-bite.— Our doctor’s 
remedy for this is to take the person bit¬ 
ten by a snake to a clay hill and bury the 
part if possible for an hour or two in clay 
mud. I suppose clay taken to the patient 
would do as well. f. m. 
Ironing Day Again. —Shorten your iron¬ 
ing “ day ” into an hour or two. I never 
iron sheets, flannels or kitchen towels. 
Being very busy, I have no reasonable 
excuse for doing so. There are enough 
things that must be ironed ; there are 
also enough that must be done standing, 
so sit down to your ironing. 
A COUNTRY GIRL. 
Not New, But for Young Housekeepers.— 
Boil fresh beef until tender, also cook 
water all out; salt. Cut in pieces which 
will go in glass fruit cans ; fill closely not 
to leave any air in ; seal quickly and feel 
secure. Spare rib, chicken, souse, veal 
or any meat can be kept as long as you 
leave it alone. r. t. h. 
Reading Dialect.—What is the general 
opinion as to letting young people read 
such writings as Josiah Allen’s Wife and 
all dialect stories ? How can our children 
learn to use good language and grammar 
and to spell correctly when so much of 
our literature is being written in that 
style ? I think it very hurtful in this 
way. MRS. MAYN. 
Mutton Stew. —Cut your mutton as for 
other stews, place in a stew pan and 
cover with boiling water; let stew slowly 
till it is tender, and the water all boiled 
off. Then add a large cupful of sweet milk 
with a teaspoonful of flour stirred into 
it, and season with pepper, salt, a pinch 
of Cayenne and a little thyme and sweet 
marjoram ; let it boil up once, turn over 
nicely toasted bread and serve. w. 
Special Starching and Ironing. —If, 
when starching indigo-blue calico, the 
starch is made blue by adding dissolved 
bluing, it will not show when ironed, 
but will look like new print. A shirt- 
bosom can be ironed nicely over a folded 
newspaner. when no bosom-board is at 
hand. Pour boiling water on a piece of 
white soap, then add the suds to the 
starch, and it will not stick to the iron. 
F. H. 
A Sunday Dinner that is easily pre¬ 
pared is potatoes warmed in milk gravy, 
together with canned salmon drained of 
its liquor and fried in some butter, then 
placed on a platter, and garnished with 
hard boiled eggs. These may be cut in 
halves, and a piece of butter laid on each 
half. Small potatoes pared and boiled, 
and the milk gravy poured over them 
while hot, are equally nice. m. 
Ginghams that Shrink.— To make a 
tuck on the wrong side of gingham skirts 
close above the ruffle, running it by 
hand just where the ruffle is stretched 
on, is excellent. But when the skirt is 
trimmed by a bias piece stitched around 
the bottom, a neat sewer can put a tuck 
in the same way ; great care must be 
taken, however, to have the seam of the 
tuck on the line of the stitching on the 
fold. I always do this way with both 
the sleeves and the skirts of children’s 
dresses and aprons. MRS. mayn. 
Home Ingenuity.—I have just learned 
how to make some vases for my organ. I 
took two lamp chimneys—large size—and 
pasted some transfer pictures on the in¬ 
side ; then I painted the inside of the 
chimney a pale pink. A fancy shaped 
bottim of board covered with putty re¬ 
ceived the chimneys. These were painted 
to match, as was also a row of flowers 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When she had Children, she gave them Castorla 
and leaves made of the putty around the 
bottom. Thus I have two lovely vases 
which will hold water and which suit 
me “ to a T.” A. M. 
Elderberry Pies.—A few green grapes 
or plums in elderberry pies improve them 
more than vinegar or lemon. m. m. 
As We Are. —The editor of Life asserts, 
regarding the average American, that the 
application of electricity to filling teeth, 
or converting sawdust into table butter 
kindles in his bosom an excitement he 
never experienced in the art department. 
A Good Bath Brick is worth many times 
its cost (six or eight cents) to keep the 
cutlery bright, and a bright steel knife 
and fork seem far more ornamental than 
tarnished silver plate. “Waste not, want 
not,” is a good old maxim, and is just as 
essential to the present generation as it 
was in the days of Poor Richard, m. m. 
Sham Holders. —A light pine frame the 
length and breadth of the pillow shams, 
with a strip of cloth tacked across the 
top and through the middle, upon which 
to pin the shams, is better for daily 
use than those that are patented. One 
can take the frame from the bed and set it 
away at night, and in the morning there 
is no crease across the freshly-ironed 
shams. j. L. K. 
Molasses Not Molasses. —Those who use 
light-colored molasses for cooking sacri¬ 
fice sweetness and flavor to color. An old 
baker says that dealers take a fair grade 
of dark molasses, add cheap brown sugar 
and still cheaper glucose, and sell the 
compound for less than the pure article 
must bring. Thus they meet the demands 
of those who claim that the dark, rich 
color of good molasses is dirt, and ask 
for light-colored products. G. n. 
Mrs. Miller, who knows all about hand¬ 
some gowns, affirms that all the big 
prices reputed as paid for dresses are 
largely fictitious and never deceive know¬ 
ing ones. The handsomest velvet dress 
that could be devised could not cost over 
$250, and a cloth dress is worth only 
$150 at the highest price. Old laces or 
something expensive in trimming might 
make a dress cost a great deal more, but 
on the whole, $100 or $200 would go a 
long ways towards getting the finest 
kind of material for dresses. 
Cheerfulness. —Two or three years ago 
I read that “ quiet, persistent cheerful¬ 
ness ” had accomplished wonders for a 
correspondent. I have tried to try it 
since. It is hard to persist in cheerful¬ 
ness when your inclinations and provo¬ 
cations point the other way. But the 
persistence brings its reward. Here is 
another thing worth trying : “Whenever 
you find yourself feeling blue, some¬ 
thing for somebody else go do.” This is 
a famous physician’s remedy for blues, 
given very privately to the patient. 
Another thing—whenever I have felt 
particularly ugly toward some one, l 
have made myself do them some favor. 
A. B. p. 
Something New. —The Modern Priscilla 
urges that a dainty and novel piece of 
crocheting easily accomplished is an um¬ 
brella case. For this use Brainard & 
Armstrong’s black knitting silk, a fine 
crochet hook and a brass ring sufficiently 
large to slip readily over the ferule of 
an umbrella. Begin by crocheting with 
single crochet over the brass ring. In 
the stitches thus formed make a row of 
d c, widening i st. Continue with d c 
rows until the case is as long as your 
umbrella, being careful to widen one 
every three rows, though much depends 
on the size of your umbrella, and it 
would be well to fit it. Finish the top 
with a row of small shells. 
Reading vs. Fancy Work.—I used to do 
a great deal of crocheting, but since I 
have had a glimpse of the delightful 
world of books, I regret that I ever 
wasted so much time. Every country 
woman must choose which she will be 
ignorant of—fancy work or literature. 
Very few have time to study both, and 
many of us must do most of our travel¬ 
ing “ by the fireside,” as Longfellow says: 
Let others traverse sea and land, 
And toil through various climes, 
I turn the world round with my hand, 
Reading these poets’ rhymes 
From them I learn whatever lies 
Beneath each changing zone. 
And see, when looking with their eyes, 
Better than with mine own.’’ 
I find the articles on books and reading 
wnich appear occasionally in The Rural 
very interesting and helpful. And the 
Chief Cook ought to be here some time 
Mothers. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
when our weekly budget of reading mat¬ 
ter arrives ! It would do her good to see 
how eagerly the Woman and Home de¬ 
partment is scanned, a country girl. 
A New Household Publishing Venture.— 
Doubtless the many admirers of Mrs. 
Rorer, of the Philadelphia Cooking 
School, will be delighted to know that 
she has just assumed the conduct of a 
new household magazine. This is to be 
known as the Household News, and 
makes its bow to the public with the 
July number. It will contain bills-of- 
fare, answers to correspondents, and 
many other helpful things by Mrs. Rorer, 
who has associated with her in the de¬ 
partments of Household Chemistry, Diet 
and Hygiene, and the Nursery, three 
authoritative M. D.’s. One of the great 
inducements to club raisers is a transfer¬ 
able six-months scholarship in Mrs. 
Rorer’s cooking school. 
Washing Fluid. —I have always thought 
there could be no satisfactory substitute 
for rubbing clothes. This washing fluid 
comes the nearest to it of anything I 
have ever tried. Dozens of people near 
us have used it two years and if it rots 
the clothes we have not discovere 1 it. 
Even if it should injure them, it might 
as well wear them out as that they should 
wear us out in rubbing All f.uit stains 
ought to be got out before the garments 
are put in the fluid. Boiling-suds from 
the fine clothes are good to wash calico 
clothes and flannels if not too warm. 
Recipe: one pound of Babbitt’s potash, 
one ounce of muriate of ammonia, one 
ounce of salts of tartar. Put all in a 
jar and pour in one gallon of boiling 
water, keeping the eyes away from the 
vapor. When all dissolved, put in a jug 
and cork tight. Soak clothes and soap 
as usual. Then put them into the boiler 
in which are cool water and one-quarter 
cup of washing fluid to every pail of 
water. Let boil 10 or 20 minutes. Take 
out, rub dirty places and rinse. A. b. p. 
Dress Reform. —I wish I could induce 
ladies who do not wear combination 
undergarments to begin now and do so; 
they are so much more healthful and 
comfortable, I can never go back to the 
old way of wearing garments. The weight 
on the hips made me more tired than the 
work I did. I buy the merino combina¬ 
tion garments, and make the corset cover 
and skirt combined of muslin. I use a 
perfect-fitting basque pattern, cut the 
fronts from top to bottom in one piece ; 
the back is the length of the basque, 
with a width or more of muslin gathered 
to it. This garment is open from top to 
bottom in front. The next garment, a 
petticoat, is buttoned or hooked to the 
corset cover; it is opened down the 
front, the band lapping about four inches. 
With these garments and stocking sup¬ 
porters, intead of elastic garters, com¬ 
fortable shoes, and a dress made with 
waist and skirt together, I can work with 
comfort. The glove kid Congress shoe is 
the most comfortable and most durable 
that I have worn. L. e. m. 
IN writing to advertisers please always mention 
THi Bubal. 
Tried & True 
may 
well be said 
of the Superior Medicine, 
the standard 
blood-purifier, 
AYERS 
SARSAPARILLA 
Its long record 
assures you that what 
has cured others 
will cure you 
Tuft’s Hair Dye 
Gray liair or whiskers changed to a glossy 
black l»y asingle application of this Dye. It 
{ imparts a natural color, acts instantaneous¬ 
ly and contains nothing inj urious to the hair. 
Sold by druggists, or will be sent on receipt 
of price, #11.00. Office, 30 Park Place, N. Y. 
You can buy a chimney to 
fit your lamp that will last till 
some accident happens to it. 
Macbeth’s “pearl top” or 
“pearl glass ” is that chimney. 
You can have it—your dealer will get it—if you 
insist ou it. He may tell you it costs him three 
times as much as some others. That is true. He 
may say they are just as good. Don’t you believe 
it—they may be better for him; he may like the 
breaking. 
Pittsburgh. Geo. A. Macbeth Co. 
B ETTER Keep your leath¬ 
er new with Vacuum 
Leather Oil; 25c, and your 
money back if you want it. 
Patent lambskin-with-wool- 
on swob and book—Mow to 
Take Care of Leather—both 
free at the store. 
Vacuum Oil Company, Rochester, N. Y. 
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V Worth a Guinea a Box. 
O —- 
q A trifling dose from 
Qa 25-cent box of 
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Beecham’s 
Pills 
•will frequently prove J 
^as effective as a doc- ^ 
o tor’s prescription. 
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